Gear On A Budget By Keith H Burgess PART TWO
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- The author talks about getting some gear together when you have to work to a budget. This is suitable information for survivalists, campers, bushcrafters Living History & historical Trekkers.
Yes you're right. Everything doesn't matter if it is period correct 💯 %
I started collecting stuff 40 years ago and keep improving over the years. What matters is we are keeping the history alive. Flee markets and swap meet are a great way to start in the US. I have real period equipment that never leaves the case. Always love your videos when they pop up.
Much appreciated Timothy as always.
Regards, Keith.
Bravo! picture hands clapping. Wish I could give you 2 thumbs up for your commentary. Indeed, much can be done with a limited budget. In fact, a very limited budget. Cost of equipment to brew a pot of tea can range from zero to several hundred dollars. Yet, the interesting point, IMO, is that with appropriate brewing techniques, a person sipping a brew can't tell the difference. :-)
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, my friend.
Excellent advice watched part 1 and two all makes sense to me
Thanks
Much appreciated Tony.
Regards, Keith.
I love it. "How did stone age man survive with stone tools? ...He didn't need all those gadgets...He managed quite fine thank you very much! You can do the same." Mr Keith Burgess
I'm so glad you are out here using common sense, practical knowledge and historical expertise to encourage us. Thank you.
And I am glad you took the time to comment Mike, thank you, much appreciated.
Regards, Keith.
Excellent video and sound advice!Doing things your self is part of the fun…and your best tool is your brain, you only have to sharpen it!! Rough sharpening is your experience…and then you "strop" with your knowledge!Thanks Mr Keith for sharing!
Bravo Keith, another excellent video with really good information.
You know, most modern folks today would never know the difference between an 18th century knife with three pins and a modern day knife with five rivets. I really liked how you did this presentation, thanks!
Thank you for taking the time to comment, much appreciated.
Regards, Keith.
Great little series. Loads of valuable wisdom right there. Thanks for sharing, Keith!
***** :)
Bravo! Absolutely spot on! We need more people like yourself on you tube and less of those "gear reviewers" who try to influence us into spending our time and money on toys.
+Evgeniy G Much appreciated, thank you.
Regards, Keith.
i grew up using a bed roll, an old WW2 canteen, coffee can and one of my mom's kitchen knives and did just fine.
sometimes i get sucked into that black hole of more is better, bottomless pit that it is.
I have since returned to my roots and while i don't adhere to any specific era, find i am much happier for having done so....good stuff Keith, i sure wish we lived closer as i'd sure enjoy sharing a camp fire chat....woods
MTwoodsrunner And you would be welcome at my fire anytime woods.
Keith.
Hey Keith Nice to see you back and hear your thoughts on budget gear! Keep on keeping on brother..
Thank you Snow Walker, much appreciated.
Regards, Keith.
Good to see new videos from you. Nice down to earth advice. Most today forget that those folks were poor. They were also sensible.
Very informative and educational. Thank you very much
Thank you for your comment Thomas, much appreciated.
Keith.
Great finds in your area , eh? Love that Hatchet! Great advice as always , thank you.
great to see you back!excelent videos,as always.
thank you very much for sharing your experience!
Glad to see you back. I like the two part video.
Thanks Deane.
Keith.
Hello Keith
I have been a long time watcher of your videos
I really enjoy them and learn a lot too!
I really enjoy your gear or how to do...
I hope everything is well with you and yours!
God Bless !!!!
Ed
Good to hear from you Ed, I very much appreciate your comment. All as well as can be here, thank you.
Regards, Keith.
It's great to have you back Keith, I hope everything is ok? Great vid, you are right.
Thanks JW, yes all fine, just very busy right now.
Regards, Keith.
Really enjoyed these two vids. Some excellent tips on getting a 17th/18th century kit together.
Glad you liked them Jeff, thanks for commenting.
Regards, Keith.
It's great to see some new videos from you here on YT, Keith. :)
Thanks mate, appreciated.
Keith.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I always enjoy your videos. All the best. Brian.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world. Maybe even more importantly
thank you for sharing some common sense with the " bush crafting " world.
Blade Monkey And Thank-You, much obliged.
Regards, Keith.
Great video Keith very helpful to those just starting and for seasoned bushcrafters. Thanks. atb
Thank you Opal, appreciated.
Regards, Keith.
Keith.. Good info and good to see you back!
Shad
Appreciated Shad.
Keith.
Wonderful video sir, thank you so much!
loved hearing your thoughts on tools keith... thanks for sharing.
Thanks W.H.
Keith.
Great video, been waiting to see another video from you.
Very kind of you to say so Hunter, thank you.
Regards, Keith.
Like I said in the video Rick, I am not sure where it came from. Could have been from my wife's store of fabrics, or more likely it was from second hand clothing in an op-shop.
Keith.
thanks for sharing your thoughts, great video
i love your insight on this subject, as iv been learning over the years of playing with different ideas and kit philosophys. i find myself steering toward the very things you talk about here. i have used the modern methods but the more i learned and experimented tweeked wat i like and wat works. the more and my kit has began to look like the gear you carry
Good to hear from you. I don't think you can beat most of the old gear. Some new ideas & tools are good, I would not give up a modern medical kit. Modern guns are good, but even those in a long term wilderness survival situation fall short of the tried & true Flintlock.
Regards, Keith.
Thanks for the video! We were starting to worry about you.
Clark and Virginia
Good day sir, I too am happy to see you back with this two part series on budget gear. As a side note, the butcher knife that you normally carry seems long for a good skinner. What is the blade length of said knife? Have a great trek.
The blade is 10 inches Ed. I like a big knife for a hunting knife, but not a heavy one. My legging knife is much smaller.
Regards, Keith.
My wife wants to know where you got that silk. lol
Great insights...good insight on the knives. I agree with you on those big "survival knives"...I find them rather cumbersome, and don't own one for that reason. However...been on the lookout for a good butcher knife for a long time now( hard to come by in Argentina)..but have a few decent knives that do the trick one job or another. One is a Gerber LMFII...great knife, but...to be honest...I should've spent the money elsewhere. Lesson learned!
I'm quite content watching your videos and learning a lot of very useful information. Much better than most videos I've seen......especially when it comes to kits(in this case) and necessary skills to survive in the bush. Thanks for passing your knowledge. It's very much appreciated.
Thank you for commenting GatitosWorld, very much appreciated.
Keith.
nice vid and i agree repurpose stuff instead of throwing away
Thank you for another excellent video. I echo the sentiment on the "Bushcraft" knives that have been taking over the community of late. In his book Camping and Woodcraft, Horace Kephart wrote "The notion that a heavy hunting knife can do the work of a hatchet is a delusion...(p. 165) the knife never was made that will compare to a good tomahawk...(p. 165) so use knives and hatches for nothing but what they were made for...(p. 167)". I prefer a good butcher's knife for game and food preparation and my pocket knife for carving and whittling on wood.
Spot on Run.
Keith.
Run Level Zer0 Much depends on your environment. In temperate forest a combination of collapsible bucksaw + knife will do the work of an axe more efficiently and the weight carried is less. In the boreal forest the axe comes into its own. In the jungle the parang or machete is king. Not an 'authentic' tool for re-enactment (unless you live in Nepal!), a kukri will match a tomahawk as a chopping tool and provide a knife that is highly versatile - the concave curve makes an excellent draw-knife, planing off fine shavings that no axe can match. A lighter knife is better for skinning and finer tasks. Ultimately, it depends on what you can carry; on foot over rough ground compromises will have to be made. In a canoe or with pack animals (or an ATV if you are more modern) you can take a more comprehensive set of tools. Will you have a base camp? Are you out for a week? A month? Indefinitely? What tasks are you likely to perform? All these will influence the choice of tools. The 'bushcraft' knife is not the same as a hunting knife - it is lighter, though modern ones often have sufficient heft to allow splitting of logs and are essentially a heavier-duty re-incarnation of the butcher's knife. Even then, there is a great range from the light Scandinavian style knives which are part of the European forest tradition to the look-how-macho-I-am 'survival' knives. I'm not taken with those either but if they suit some people's needs, that's their choice.
The combination of tools we take will match our environment and personal philosophy. Would Kephart or GW Sears (Nessmuk) have taken a Bic or a ferro-rod if such things ad existed then? You bet! Are we trying to re-create that world, to follow the spirit of it or to take advantage of modern materials as they would have done had they been available? That is an individual choice. Keith has chosen one end of the spectrum and more power to his elbow but while it is wonderful to have the right tool for every job, most of the time we have to adapt - that s part of the craft, too. Personally, if I take an axe I'm anticipating something more than a tomahawk can handle with ease. However, if that's the tool for you and it suits your purpose, I'm not going to say you are wrong - there far too much dogma. I have an old 10" German hunting knife, a thing of beauty, similar in design to a Bowie but I can't imagine what use it is beyond splitting logs but I'm sure someone can. Each to his own...
Hola Keith. Muy buenos y explicativos estos dos vídeos. En España también se fabrican buenos cuchillos para el monte y la caza, pero es mejor reutilizar cuchillos de carnicero como tu haces. Saludos.Hi Keith. Very good and explanatory these two videos. In Spain good knives to mount and hunting are also produced, but better reuse butcher knives as you do. Greetings.
Hola my friend, good to hear from you again. Glad you liked the videos. I hope all is well with you & your family.
Sincere regards, Keith.
hello my friend , thanks for your budget thoughts....
your friend bill
Good day Bill, good to hear from you again my friend. I hope all is well with you & yours.
Take care, regards, Keith.
Great videos. I know for a fact that many of the pioneers, and common people from the eighteenth century right up to the present, were very often poor, and made due with whatever tools they could find cheap, or could make themselves. Rich people seldom had to settle a continent. Poor people left home to move west, or to move to another country, in order to better their lives. "Make do, or do without" is more than just a slogan. My grandpa went through the Great Depression, and then through WWII, and was poor his whole life. He taught me "Make do, or do without" at a very early age, and along with this, taught me that it's a poor worker who blames his tools. I don't see a lot of knowledgeable people in the woods who come in with five hundred dollar knives, or two thousand dollars worth of camping equipment. They've never HAD to surive in the wild, and it shows.
Thank you James & thanks for the info. Very good to hear from you. Totally agree, nothing beats experience, it is a good teacher.
Regards, Keith.
I like your views on gear, those big expensive rambo knives are unnecessary.
I will get a inexpensive glock 81 knife. It does have a 4" root saw on the spine but it is something I want to try once and the knife itself is very lightweight (202 grams). It is claimed to be soldier proof so I guess it is worth a shot. Some other knives I want to try are the ka-bar knife, mora classic no.1 knife and the old hickory butcher knife.
I like trying new stuff and I collect knives, the money won't be lost.
I agree whole heartedly!
Great Bargain Buying Tips and tricks. Cheers ;-)
Hi, was a pillow case ever included or carried in a 18th century woodsrunner's kit? Thanks!
Not that I am aware of Nick. I use my knapsack as a pillow, you could also use a haversack.
Regards, Keith.
Thanks!
Nick post My pleasure Nick.
Keith.
Did blacksmiths of the era shape tins by pounding them out? We always see in Hollywood examples the sparks of iron working. But, wouldn't they have worked with copper, brass and tin?
Yes mate, I did not express my thoughts as well as I had hoped in the video. That is why I seemed to contradict myself. I was holding a tinned iron tinderbox, & I said that these were usually soldered. Then I said that I had a tinderbox that had been pressed or shaped, but that one was as you suggest, made of brass. Copper & brass seems to have been mostly shaped, where as tinned iron items were soldered. The makers of these would have been tin smiths.
Blacksmiths dealt mainly in heavier items, tools mainly, fire steels etc. I guess they turned their hand to whatever was needed at the time, whether it be nails, traps, knives or hinges.
Regards, Keith.
that "broad"hatchet
is actually a HEWING hachet
atb Markus
+Chaingangboy89 Thank you Markus. Actually the broad hatchet & the hewing hatchet are one & the same.
Regards, Keith.
It's also called a carpenter axe. Like he said, the blades can easily be found at antique shops.